Editing Lascelles Abercrombie (section)

===Family===
Abercrombie was the brother of architect and noted town planner [[Patrick Abercrombie]]. In 1909 he married Catherine Gwatkin (1881–1968) of [[Grange-over-Sands]]. They had 4 children, a daughter and three sons.  Two of the sons achieved prominence, [[David Abercrombie (linguist)|David Abercrombie]] as a phonetician and [[Michael Abercrombie]] as a cell biologist.<ref name="DNB">{{cite journal|last1=Elton|first1=Oliver|title=Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881–1938)|journal=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|date=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com|access-date=7 August 2016}}</ref> The latter's son [[Nicholas Abercrombie]] is a sociologist. A grandson, Jeffrey Cooper, produced an admirable bibliography of his grandfather, with brief but important notes, while a great-grandson is author [[Joe Abercrombie]].<ref name="poetscorner">[http://theotherpages.org/poems/poem-ab.html#abercrombie Index entry for Lascelles Abercrombie at Poets' Corner]; accessed 5 May 2014.</ref><ref name="glosacuk">[http://resources.glos.ac.uk/departments/lis/archives/collections/gpwa/dymock.cfm Dymock Poets Archive] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521155638/http://resources.glos.ac.uk/departments/lis/archives/collections/gpwa/dymock.cfm |date=21 May 2009 }}, resources.glos.ac.uk; accessed 5 May 2014.</ref>

[[Arthur Ransome]] dedicated his second children's adventure novel ''[[Swallowdale]]'' to Lascelles's daughter Elizabeth. He was a close friend of her father, Lascelles, who was often his walking/hiking companion during the 1900/1910s. He had previously dedicated his 1909 anthology, ''The Book of Friendship'' to Lascelles Abercrombie.<ref>''Mixed Moss 2024''</ref>